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<h3 class="post-title">Groovy Goodness: Strip Leading Spaces from Lines with Margin</h3>

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<p>Since Groovy 1.7.3 we can use the <code>stripMargin()</code> method to strip characters up to and including a margin character from multiline strings. The default character is the pipe symbol (|), but we can pass a parameter to the method and use a custom character.</p>
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def s = '''\
        |Groovy
        |Grails
        |Griffon'''
        
assert '''\
Groovy
Grails
Griffon''' == s.stripMargin()

def s1 = '''\
   * Gradle
   * GPars
   * Spock''' 
   
assert '''\
 Gradle
 GPars
 Spock''' == s1.stripMargin("* ")
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